The most important skill for a researcher is not technical ability. It's taste. The ability to identify interesting and tractable problems, and recognize important ideas when they show up. This can't be taught directly. It's cultivated through curiosity and broad reading.

China's Alibaba just dropped a Python framework for building multi-agent apps. AgentScope lets you build AI agents visually with MCP tools, memory, rag, and reasoning capabilities. Works with any LLM and supports real-time steering. 100% Opensource.

What should I eat in Japan apart from Sushi and Ramen?

Finally, sense has prevailed!

I applied for a Japanese visa recently. The visa officer was like "If you send me an email, I will reply within 24 hours. If I do not, it means our mail server has failed."

OpenAI just killed 100 agent building startups

No German in the Nobel prizes list yet ....

New paper 📜: Tiny Recursion Model (TRM) is a recursive reasoning approach with a tiny 7M parameters neural network that obtains 45% on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, beating most LLMs. Blog: alexiajm.github.io/2025/09/29/tin… Code: github.com/SamsungSAILMon… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.04871

Google has won 3 Nobel Prizes in just 2 years: >2024: Demis Hassabis (AlphaFold), Geoff Hinton (AI) >2025: Michel & Jone (Quantum Computing) No other tech company matches Google’s long-term research taste and ambition. Not Apple, Microsoft, or Amazon. The real question: when

Most certainly, Ashish Vaswani deserves a Turing award if not the Nobel.

I am practicing bending down upto a 90 degree angle to prepare for my Japan trip. My belly is not helping.

Yes!

What? dw.com/en/german-busi…

Karpathy just dropped a code that: 1. Trains a tokenizer (rust). 2. Pretrains a GPT model on FineWeb. 3. SFT on chat data (smoltalk) & multiple choice questions & tool use. 4. RL (GRPO) on GSM8K. 5. Evaluates on ARC, MMLU, GSM8K, HumanEval. 6. Run Inference with: KV cache,

Failed my driving exam 😢

omas-gegen-rechts.org spotted them at a stall in the local market the other day. "Grandmothers against right-wing extremism"

Got fined by German police for crossing a red light on foot.

Congratulations Yoshua Bengio!! Possibly the first scientist with one million citations in the world. Crazy how fast the field has grown 🤯

You gotta admire the German tradition of protest. mopo.de/hamburg/wir-si…

Just booked myself a Shinkansen ride woohoo